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Learning to cook
As with most people, when I get busy, blogging suffers. Instead, I’m unwinding by learning to cook. It’s been a long journey, levelling up on the slopes of Mt. Noob and now reaching the stages where I’m at least mildly competent.
Lessons learnt thus far: the sheer ubiquity of onions and garlic. What happens if you [...]
The FA Cup
Sunday’s FA Cup semi being Cardiff’s biggest game for 81 years, it’s also the biggest game I’ll have been to - and it’s dominating my thoughts right now, even though there are a dozen strange and wonderful things going on around me. It’ll also give me a chance to exercise my architectural fetishism re: stadiums [...]
New pastures
Well, it’s out in the open now, so I should quickly share it here too - I’m leaving uSwitch early next month. I’ve learnt a great deal working there; it’s just that the company is going through a bit of a reshuffle and it strikes me as an appropriate time to move on to some [...]
Metaphors
Having one of those jobs that defies snappy explanation, I spend a while explaining it to others. I came up with this one a few months ago, and so far it seems to be holding up.
Formula 1 teams spend millions on tyres. The tyre companies themselves spend millions more. Their extensive R&D programmes pour money [...]
Two new songs
Well, they’re not exactly new, but I’ve only recently got round to mixing and uploading them. That’s all the culture I can muster for a while; enjoy.
- Cennydd Bowles - My Lady Of The Sea [AAC, 4.3MB]
- Cennydd Bowles - Ursa Major [AAC, 3.1MB] - many thanks to Sélène for backing vocals
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The Urge
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10 most excellent things of 2007
End of year lists are, as we all know, both passé and vaguely narcissistic. So, with that in mind, here’s an end of year list, in no particular order.
Battles - Mirrored
Their earlier EPs were interesting, precise and showed a faint glimmer of humour, but I don’t think anyone expected the album to be such a [...]
Rules of the city
Back from a deserved break in Prague; was starting to feel a little tetchy. And a lovely city it is too, with jarring juxtapositions of Iron Curtain housing blocks and red-roofed historical buildings, and wonderfully specific museums. And again with the impressive knowledge of English - a particularly good thing for the casual weekend traveller; [...]
First dance
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Brighton on the rocks
Dear Reader,
I am currently packing my gadgetry for a weekend of unabashed geekery: dConstruct and BarCamp Brighton. If you need to get hold of me this weekend, I will likely prove unavailable, unless you can teach me some tricks on how to integrate User-Centred Design into an Agile development environment.
Next week’s blog activity will be [...]